2 Corinthians 12:19 — 2 Corinthians 13:14

19 All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. ^1aBefore God ^bin Christ we speak; but all things, beloved, are for your ^cbuilding up.

20 For I ^afear that perhaps when I come, I may find you not such as I wish, and I may be found by you not such as you wish; that perhaps theremay be ^1bstrife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, ^cselfish ambitions, ²slanders, ³whisperings, ⁴demonstrations of being puffed up, ^5dtumults;

21 That when I come again my God may humble me before you and I may mourn over many who have ^asinned before and who have not ^brepented of the ^cuncleanness and ^dfornication and licentiousness which they have practiced.

CHAPTER 13

1 This ^athird time I am coming to you; at the mouth of two or three ^bwitnesses shall every word be established.

2 I have previously said and I say beforehand, when I was present the second time and being ^aabsent now, to those who have ^bsinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will ^cnot spare,

3 Since you seek a proof of the Christ who is speaking in me, who is not weak unto you but is ^1apowerful in you.

4 For indeed He was ^acrucified out of ¹weakness, but He ^blives ²by the power of God. For indeed ³we are ^cweak in Him, but we will ^dlive together with Him ²by the ^epower of God directed toward you.

5 Test yourselves whether you are in the ¹faith; ²prove yourselves. Or do you not realize about yourselves that ³Jesus Christ is ^ain you, unless you are ^4bdisapproved?

6 But I hope that you will know that ¹we are not disapproved.

7 Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong, ¹not that we may appear approved, but that you yourselves may do what is good and we may be as if disapproved.

8 ¹For we are not able to do anything against the ²truth but rather for the truth.

9 For we rejoice whenever we are ^1aweak and you are powerful; this also we pray for, your ^2bperfecting.

10 Therefore I write these things while being ^aabsent in order that when ^bpresent I would not have to use ^cseverity, according to the ^dauthority which the Lord has given me for ^ebuilding up and not for overthrowing.

11 Finally, brothers, ^1arejoice, be ²perfected, be ³comforted, ^4bthink the same thing, be ⁵at ^cpeace; and the ^dGod of ⁶love and peace will be with you.

12 Greet one another with a ^1aholy kiss.

13 ^aAll the saints greet you.

2 Corinthians 12:1 — 2 Corinthians 12:18

1 To ^aboast is ¹necessary, though indeed not ^bexpedient; yet I will ²come to ^3cvisions and ^drevelations of the Lord.

2 I know a ¹man ^ain Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I do not know, or outside the body I do not know; God ^bknows) such a one was ²caught away ³to the ⁴third heaven.

3 ¹And I know such a man (whether in the body or ²outside the body, I do not know; God knows),

4 That he was caught away into ¹Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is ^anot allowed for a man to speak.

5 On behalf of such a one I will ^aboast, but on behalf of myself I will not ^bboast, except in my ^cweaknesses.

6 For if I desire to ^aboast, I will not be foolish, for I will ^bspeak the truth; but I refrain lest anyone account of me something above what he ^csees me to be or ^dhears from me.

7 And because of the ¹transcendence of the revelations, in order that I might not be exceedingly ^alifted up, there was given to me a ^2bthorn in the flesh, a messenger of ^cSatan, that he might ³buffet me, in order that I might not be exceedingly lifted up.

8 Concerning this I entreated the Lord ^athree times that it might depart from me.

9 And He has said to me, My ^1agrace is sufficient for you, for My ^2bpower is perfected in ^cweakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses that the ^dpower of Christ might ^3etabernacle over me.

10 Therefore I am ¹well pleased in ^aweaknesses, in ²insults, in ^3bnecessities, in ^cpersecutions and ^4ddistresses, on behalf of Christ; for when I am ^5eweak, then I am ⁵powerful.

11 I have become ^afoolish; you yourselves have compelled me. For it is I who should have been ^bcommended by you; for in nothing am I inferior to the ^1csuper-apostles, even though I am ^dnothing.

12 Indeed the ¹signs of an ^aapostle were wrought among you in all ^bendurance by ^2csigns and ³wonders and ⁴works of power.

13 For what is there in which you were ¹treated in a manner inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a ^aburden to you? ²Graciously forgive me this ²injustice!

14 Behold, this ^athird time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden; for I do ^bnot seek what is yours but you. For the ^cchildren ought not to store up for the parents, but the ^dparents for the children.

15 But I, I will most gladly ¹spend and ^2abe utterly spent on behalf of your souls. If I ^blove you more abundantly, am I loved less?

16 But ¹let it be so! I did ^anot burden you; but, as some of you say, being ²crafty, I took you by guile.

17 Did I take ^aadvantage of you through anyone whom I have sent ^bto you?

18 I entreated ^aTitus and sent with him the ^bbrother. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not walk in the same ^1cspirit? In the same ^dsteps?

2 Corinthians 11:8 — 2 Corinthians 11:33

8 I robbed other churches, taking wages for the ministry to you.

9 And when I was present with you and ^alacked, I was not a ^bburden to anyone; for the brothers who came from ^cMacedonia ^dfilled up my lack, and in everything I kept myself from being ^eburdensome to you, and will keep myself.

10 The ¹truthfulness of Christ is in me, that this ^aboasting shall not be stopped as it regards me in the regions of ^bAchaia.

11 Why? Because I do not ^alove you? God ^bknows.

12 But what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity, that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

13 For such ones are ^1afalse apostles, deceitful ^bworkers, ²transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ.

14 And no wonder, for ^1aSatan himself transfigures himself into an ^2bangel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers transfigure themselves into ¹ministers of righteousness, whose ^aend will be according to their works.

16 Again I say, Let no one think me to be ^afoolish; but if otherwise, accept me even as if I were foolish, that I also may ^bboast a little.

17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord but as if in ^afoolishness, in this ^1bconfidence of boasting.

18 Since many ^aboast according to the ^bflesh, I also will ^cboast.

19 For you ^abear gladly with ^bfools because you yourselves are ¹wise.

20 For you bear it if anyone ^aenslaves you, if anyone ^bdevours you, if anyone ¹takes you, if anyone ^clifts himself up, if anyone beats you in the face.

21 ¹By way of self-disparagement I say this, ²Supposedly we ourselves were ^aweak. But in whatever anyone else is daring, I speak in ^bfoolishness, I also am ^cdaring.

22 ^1aHebrews are they? I also. ^1bIsraelites are they? I also. The ^1cseed of Abraham are they? I also.

23 ^aMinisters of Christ are they? I speak as being ^1bbeside myself, I more so! In ^clabors more abundantly, in ^dimprisonments more abundantly, in ^estripes ²excessively, in ^fdeaths often.

24 Under the hands of the Jews five times I received ^aforty stripes less one;

25 Three times I was beaten with ¹rods, once I was ^astoned, ²three times I was ^bshipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

26 In journeys often, in dangers of ¹rivers, in dangers of ²robbers, in dangers from my ^arace, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the ^bcity, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among ^3cfalse brothers;

27 In ^alabor and hardship; in ¹watchings often; in ^2bhunger and thirst; in ^2cfastings often; in ³cold and ^4dnakedness —

28 Apart from the things which have ¹not been mentioned, there is this: the crowd of cares pressing upon me daily, the ²anxious concern for ^aall the churches.

29 Who is ^aweak, and I am not weak? Who is ^bstumbled, and ¹I myself do not ²burn?

30 If I must ^aboast, I will boast of the ¹things of my ^bweakness.

31 The ^aGod and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is ^bblessed forever, ^cknows that I am ^dnot lying.

32 In ^aDamascus, the ¹governor under Aretas the king ^bguarded the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me;

33 And in a basket I was ^alowered through a window, through the wall, and escaped his hands.

2 Corinthians 10:7 — 2 Corinthians 11:7

7 You look at things ^aaccording to their appearance. If someone ¹has confidence in himself to be ^bof Christ, let him take account of this again concerning himself, that even as he is ^cof Christ, ^dso also are we.

8 For even if I should ^aboast somewhat more abundantly concerning our ^bauthority, which the Lord has given for ^1cbuilding you up and not for overthrowing you, I will not be put to shame.

9 I say this so as not to seem as if I am terrifying you through my letters,

10 Because while his letters, someone says, are weighty and strong, his ^abodily presence is ^1bweak and his ^cspeech ²contemptible.

11 Let such a one take account of this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also we are in deed when present.

12 For we do not ^adare to class or compare ourselves with any of those who ^bcommend themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

13 But we will ¹not ^aboast beyond our measure but ²according to the measure of the ³rule which the God of measure has ^bapportioned to us, to reach even as far as you.

14 For we are not ¹extending ourselves beyond our bounds, as if we did not reach you, for we were the first to ^acome even as far as unto you in the ^bgospel of Christ.

15 We are ^anot boasting beyond our measure in ^bothers’ labors, but have the hope, as your faith is increasing, to be ¹magnified in you according to our rule unto abundance,

16 So that we may announce the gospel unto those parts beyond you, not so that we may boast in another man’s rule in things already prepared.

17 But he who ^aboasts, let him boast in the Lord;

18 For it is not the one who ^acommends himself who is ^bapproved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

CHAPTER 11

1 I wish that you would ^abear with me in a little ^1bfoolishness; but indeed you do bear with me.

2 For I am jealous over you with a ^1ajealousy of God; for I ^bbetrothed you to one husband to ^cpresent you as a pure ^2dvirgin to Christ.

3 But I fear lest somehow, as the ^aserpent ^bdeceived ^cEve by his ^dcraftiness, your ^1ethoughts would be corrupted from the ^2fsimplicity and the ^gpurity toward Christ.

4 For if indeed he who comes preaches ^1aanother Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive a ^1bdifferent spirit, which you have not received, or a ^1cdifferent gospel, which you have not accepted, you ^dbear ²well with him.

5 But I count myself to be inferior to the ^1asuper-apostles in nothing.

6 But even if I am a ¹layman in ^aspeech, yet I am not in ^bknowledge; indeed in every way we have made this ^cmanifest in all things to you.

7 Or did I commit a sin, abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I announced the gospel of God to you ^afree of charge?

2 Corinthians 9:1 — 2 Corinthians 10:6

1 For concerning the ^aministry to the saints, it is superfluous for me to ^bwrite to you;

2 For I know your ^aeagerness, of which I ^bboast on your behalf to the Macedonians, that ¹Achaia has been prepared since ^clast year; and your zeal has stirred up the greater number of them.

3 But I sent the ^abrothers that our boasting on your behalf might not be made void in this respect, that, as I said, you might be prepared;

4 Lest, if the ^aMacedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, be put to shame in this ^1bconfidence.

5 Therefore I thought it necessary to entreat the brothers to go before to you and make ready beforehand your previously promised ^1ablessing, that thus this might be ready ²as a blessing and not ²as a matter of covetousness.

6 But take note of this: He who ^asows sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who sows with ¹blessings shall also with ²blessings reap;

7 Each one as he has purposed in his heart, ^anot out of sorrow or out of ¹necessity, for ²God loves a ³cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make ¹all grace abound unto you, that, in everything always having all sufficiency, you may ^aabound unto every good work;

9 Even as it is written, ^a“He has ^1bscattered abroad; he has given to the ^2cpoor; his ³righteousness abides forever.”

10 Now ¹He who bountifully supplies ^aseed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and cause the fruits of your righteousness to increase.

11 You in everything are being ^aenriched unto all ¹liberality, which works out through us ^bthanksgiving to God,

12 Because the ^aministry of this ¹service is not only filling up the ^black of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.

13 They, through the ¹approving of this ministry, are ^aglorifying God based upon the subjection unto the gospel of Christ that issues from your ^bconfession, and upon the ^cliberality of the ^2dfellowship to them and to all;

14 While in petition on your behalf they also long after you on account of the ¹surpassing ²grace of God upon you.

15 ^aThanks be to God for His ¹indescribable ^2bgift!

CHAPTER 10

1 ¹But I myself, Paul, ^aentreat you through the ^2bmeekness and ³gentleness of Christ, who (as you say) in ^cperson am ^4dbase among you, but while absent am ^5ebold toward you,

2 I beseech you that when ^apresent I would not have to be ^bbold in the confidence with which I count myself, to dare do to some who count us as ones who are walking ^caccording to flesh.

3 For though we walk ¹in flesh, we do not ^awar according to flesh;

4 For the ^aweapons of our ^bwarfare are ¹not fleshly but ^2cpowerful before God for the ^doverthrowing of strongholds,

5 As we overthrow ^1areasonings and every ^2bhigh thing rising up against the knowledge of God, and take ^ccaptive every ^1dthought unto the ^eobedience of Christ.

6 And we are ready to ^1apunish all disobedience when your ^2bobedience is fulfilled.